Exclusive game launches used to mean one platform gets a new title months before another, but Fortnite for Android looks set to be a limited time exclusive to just one smartphone when it launches in August. Samsung thinks it will help sell the Galaxy Note 9.

First announced at E3, EA's all-game-access version of Origin Access is expected to launch next week after EA CFO Blake Jorgensen confirmed as much during an earnings call. Subscribe and expect to play new EA games before everyone else.

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The new documentary General Magic is an excellent look at the startup of the same name, which spun out of Apple in 1990 to build software and hardware for mobile computing, did some wildly innovative stuff—and then failed. (My colleagues Mark Sullivan and Katharine Schwab have already reported on different aspects of the company’s story, prompted …
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The approach that we’ve taken to false news is not to say, you can’t say something wrong on the internet. I think that that would be too extreme. Everyone gets things wrong, and if we were taking down people’s accounts when they got a few things wrong, then that would be a hard world for giving people a voice and saying that you care about that. But at the same time … I do think we have a responsibility to make sure that those aren’t hoaxes and blatant misinformation.

Shareholders for both companies met separately at the New York Hilton this morning to vote on the $71.3 billion offer. Only one individual protesting the bid and said Disney is overpaying for Fox, Variety reported.

It's not clear what percentage of Amazon's users have this feature turned on, nor do we have a time frame for when (or even if) it will be rolled out to the larger public. But what we do know is that Amazon is testing the capability for this feature, and we can hope it will be expanded soon.

This is one of several outages MoviePass has experienced in the last several months as its user base expanded to over two million. Movie theaters and business experts have their eye on MoviePass, questioning the sustainability of its financial model and whether it will even last the summer .

The ban on cryptocurrency miners in the Play Store follows a Google block on cryptomining extensions on the Chrome Web Store , following the rise in CoinHive-based in-browser miners. It stopped accepting new cryptomining extensions in April, and delisted them in June, altering its previous policy that allowed cryptominers as long as they sufficiently explained their purpose. It banned them outright after finding that 90 percent of the mining extension failed to inform users of their mining functionality. The changes to Google Play policy were first spotted by Android Police .

Japan has experienced devastating floods this year which has led to hundreds of thousands of people evacuating their home and millions worth of property being damaged. Now, Apple has expressed its heartfelt sympathy to people living in Japan and is offering them free repairs for products damaged in the flood.

Huawei allegedly plans to launch its foldable phone very early next year. The entire goal is supposedly just to draw attention to the company. The world’s first flexible smartphone will certainly generate media buzz, even if Huawei only expects to sell a few thousand of them. That’s why the Chinese company plans to beat Samsung to the punch.

Personally, I loathe having to open voice messages on WhatsApp and have never received one on Facebook Messenger, but for the sender, at least, such services can be helpful if they're on the go and can't stop to type a message. And that's LinkedIn's justification for releasing the feature.

Recent reports indicate Fortnite is now making more than $2 million a day on iOS alone, so it doesn’t make sense for Epic to make the game exclusive to just one Android device for a whole month unless there’s a big incentive for doing so.

Competition is heating up between Amazon and Apple, regarding which will pass the trillion dollar valuation mark first. But despite Apple still being ahead to the tune of approximately $949 billion to Amazon’s $888 billion, investors seem to believe that Jeff Bezos’ retail giant will be the one to set the record.

The Soviet chess master helped pave the way for women in the sport, becoming the world's second women's chess champion in 1950, the same year she became the first woman awarded the title of International Master. To honor her achievements and the many titles Rudenko collected, Google dedicated its Doodle on Friday to the chess champ on her 114th birthday.

The company told Engadget that the feature is currently available only to smart speaker users in the US, all of whom should have access within a week. This won't be of much help if you're only using Assistant on your phone. All the same, this is an important response to Amazon, whose Alexa helper has supported scheduled routines for months. You no longer have to be picky about your choice of smart speaker if you're determined to automate your smart home.

When I see a new dApp , platform or blockchain startup launch, I like to play a little game. I call it blockchain buzzword bingo. It’s pretty simple, you get a point for every time you read the words blockchain, decentralization, proof of work, proof of stake, hybrid, ledger, disrupt, distributed… I’m sure there are more that can go on the list, but you get the point, they’re buzzwords that don’t have much meaning on their own. It’s an amusing way of grading a dApp – if nothing else – some score significantly higher than others.

When you visit the search section inside the Apple Store app, you will now see a list of things you might want to “try searching” for. They might include products like AirPods or Beats, or broader phrases like “cases compatible with this device.”

For Thompson, whose work is typically of the respectable variety, it’s not just that he jumped to conclusions — most of us have been guilty of that a time or two — it’s that he doubled down on the bad take when presented with evidence to the contrary. His only edit, as of this writing, was to make an equally ridiculous statement earlier this morning that “Twitter appears to have adjusted its platform overnight to no longer limit the visibility of some prominent Republicans in its search results.”

Why the hesitation? Although Discovery has partnered with AMC and Viacom on a non-sports streaming TV bundle from Philo , only premium cable networks such as HBO and Showtime have ventured out of the bundle on their own. Other basic cable networks, such as ESPN, have carefully avoided any overlap between streaming and cable programming. A standalone Discovery service seems inevitable, but actually launching the thing would be a big step that could further jeopardize what was once a lucrative business model.

Here is a super important thing that we don't talk about enough:Almost all of the increase in income inequality from 1978 to the present can be accounted for by the difference in wages between top performing firms and everyone else. 1/http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/...

Lego's Hogwarts Castle is one of the largest Lego sets ever created and it will take some time to put all 6,020 pieces into place. But the effort will be worth it for both Lego and Harry Potter fans who want to see plastic bricks transformed into something magical.

That genre is “adventurers” and “explorers” — people who snap epic photos in the great outdoors. As an Alaska resident, insta_repeat’s creator said she sees the same locations appear on different accounts over and over. Worse yet, she identifies a similarity in the way the various photographers shoot their images.

Mowgli was originally set to debut on Oct. 19, 2018 in the US, but the film will shift to a 2019 release as part of the deal. The star-studded film features Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Matthew Rhys, while Mowgli himself is played by Rohan Chand.

For those unfamiliar, ERP software uses a central shared database to automate and manage several core back office functions. So, why are they being targeted? As the report notes, "these systems hold the crown jewels organizations need to successfully operate."

On the outside, the 13-inch MacBook Pro 2018 appears almost identical to last year's model, even down to the similar size and weight. As with 2017’s MacBook Pro, there’s no change to the Retina display’s resolution. The 13.3-inch panel continues to pack 2560x1600 pixels. Some rivals exceeded that even before last year’s models came along, so the 13-inch MacBook Pro loses out on sharpness, but the P3 wide color gamut of Apple’s panel is an attractive proposition for photographic and design work.

A future Samsung Galaxy phone (although likely not this Galaxy phone ) could have a flexible screen that's unbreakable, delivering the first truly foldable handset. The Korean electronics giant said Wednesday that its recently developed phone panel has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories, meaning it's ready to start shipping to consumers in actual devices. Samsung said it expects the new panel to have applications in non-phone markets as well, such as automobiles, mobile military devices and portable game consoles, among others.

Successful IT departments are defined not only by the technology they deploy and manage, but by the skills and capabilities of their people. IT workers must stay up to date with the latest technology trends and evolutions, as well as soft skills, like project management, presentation and persuasion, and general management. This policy defines the types of training the company will pay for and covers training guidelines, employee obligations, organizational responsibilities, and reimbursement procedures.
From the policy:
When considering training, ensure that there is an identifiable link between the selected training option and the employee’s career development plan. With that link established, identify which delivery method will best meet the employee’s career development needs, within the context of their current job requirements:
Internal training provided by the company and delivered onsite
External training provided by a vendor or university, usually from one day to several weeks in duration
Certification or degree programs
Self-study
A combination of the above can be used for ongoing employee development and should be considered part of an integrated career development plan.

In the last week of the show, lovely Alexandra woke up one morning to debrief the girls on the night before. She had taken an improbable liking to Dr Alex and been coupled up with him for a little while, happily sharing kisses in bed. She said that Alex had taken her hand and guided it down his boxers. She batted him away. They all had a giggle about it — because what sexually active straight young woman hasn’t been there? We laugh it off, because that’s what we’ve been taught to do. The boy’s high-fived each other, as if a girl swiping your penis away is a cause for celebration. Second base! Nice, bro!

Previously, an attacker would have to run malicious code on an affected device to exploit Intel, AMD, and ARM processors by running malicious JavaScript on a user's browser. But now, an attacker can pummel a target device with malicious network traffic without running any code on the system, say the paper's authors.

The US Army is getting in on the esports craze too , but the game isn't one you might expect. Instead of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or Rainbow Six Siege , the military is hosting a tournament for Street Fighter V . The competition will be broadcast on Twitch starting tomorrow from Fort Bliss. The winner from each garrison (tournaments run through the 25th) will go on to the sold-out Grand Finals at PAX West in Seattle on September 1st. What will the winning soldier get for their efforts? A two-night stay at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas along with a $500 gift card, an Army esports jersey, commemorative coin and Twitch gear.

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Okay, okay. I understand the logic here. You love your cowboy boots. They’re so snazzy and go with all your outfits. But yeah, the downside is that it’s freaking hot right now, so your feet feel like they are in a compact leather sauna. And also, if you’ve just dropped $40 on a pedicure, you want to look country, but you also want to show off your toes. It’s a real problem.

It may seem like a lot, but considering his annual salary at Facebook is a whopping one dollar, and he receives no incentives or bonuses… it’s still a lot of money. But, keep in mind that the 34-year-old CEO just lost $15.4 billion in one day – he’s only worth $65 billion now. For the love of likes, somebody start a GoFundMe already.

If you were expecting tables covered in cocaine residue and M&M’s bowls with the brown ones carefully extracted, get ready to be disappointed. The player’s lounge was strangely wholesome, and felt more like a sixth-form common room than a hangout for professional athletes of the 21st century.